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Show 1893.] SPECIES OF MOTHS FROM INDIA. 399 wings and end on the inner margin of hind wings marked by minute white dots, the latter always conspicuous; hind margin of fore wing below apex occupied by a diffuse bronzy olive suffusion. Underside purplish grey, with the middle and 2nd lines, the discal spots, and a shade following darker. Expanse of wings, $ 56 mUlhn., 3 48 millim. The largest species of the genus. Hah. Sikkim. [Taken by Moller in March and May, in the low valleys, where it seems a rare species.-H. J. E.~] FASCELLINA INORNATA, sp. n. o*. Fore wings dull olive-browrn, shaded with dark brown beyond the 3rd line, and dusted sparsely with dark brown striae towards the base and inner margin; 1st line dark brown, obliquely sinuous, with some pearly silvery scales, which are plainest on the inner margin and on the veins; 2nd line thick, sinuous, running in the main parallel to the 1st line, and to the hind margin; an indistinct, oblique brown blotch from the costa beyond the origin of the 1st line runs to meet the 2nd line below the costa; 3rd line brown, sinuous, apparently double, with a pearly silvery thread up the centre, consisting of a series of curves, concave basewards between the veins; the line forms a sinus inwards at the centre, and outwards below the costa, before which it is recurved again basewards, and is followed on the costa by a silvery blotch ; the line is followed on the inner margin by a patch of silvery scales, and some indistinct teeth of the same colour can be made out in the dark submarginal space; costal space between 2nd and 3rd lines dull tawny. Hind wings thickly beset with dark transverse stria? at the base, with a nearly straight double brown silvery-centred middle line, and a less distinct denticulated submarginal line. Head, thorax, and abdomen above dark olive-brown. Underside bright fulvous ; the basal half of the costa paler; the hind margin cinereous ; 2nd line deep fulvous from costa halfway across the wing; 3rd line marked by a diffuse edging of pearly scales in the upper half, by a fine silvery line in the lower. Hind wings with 2 curved red-brown lines, which do not approximate. Underside of abdomen and thorax fulvous. Expanse of wings 36 millim. Hab. Sikkim. Akin to F. chromataria, distinguished by the absence of white spots, and the presence of the dull tawny patch below the costa towards the apex. The antennae are much more densely and lengthily ciliated than they usually are in this genus. [This type is from the Atkinson Collection. I have another like it from Moller; it is evidently a rare species.-H. J. E.~] FASCELLINA SUBSIGNATA, sp. n. 3 • Fore wings ashy grey, much suffused with dull olivaceous, and chequered with a few darker stria? ; 1st line, dark olive, forms an 27* |